Tom Izzo couldn’t be more right in his verbal destruction of the NCAA

“I love my job but I hate my profession.”

That sentence alone from Tom Izzo was enough to verbally decimate the NCAA on Tuesday afternoon after hearing that Louisville had signed a G-League player for the upcoming season.

That’s right, Louisville picked up a commitment from someone who had been in the G-League for multiple seasons, and it caught everyone off guard, including Izzo. He said that no one had any idea that was possible until it happened and he was informed of the news a day earlier. That’s unacceptable.

Izzo took to the media to voice his heavy displeasure on the topic, and he couldn’t be more correct.

Izzo joked that he should call Magic Johnson, Jaren Jackson Jr., Miles Bridges, and Max Christie to ask if they have any eligibility left and if they want to join the program for the season. He was obviously being facetious, but he made a good point. If you can pull a player who had been in the G-League for multiple seasons to your program, where does it stop?

How is that any better than an NBA player who barely sees the floor in his first year coming back to college for one final season to improve his stock? It’s really not.

Izzo isn’t happy with the NCAA and he’ll surely be slapped with a fine for his scorched-earth take on the product, but he won’t care. He just wants his profession to be respectable again, and letting pro athletes come back to college on the flip of a coin won’t be doing it.

Most fans agree with Izzo, and most coaches, too. What Louisville was able to do is ridiculous and embarrassing like Izzo said, and unless changes are made, it’s going to continue to spiral.

The NCAA is in trouble.